Basic Impact Assessment At Project Level Page 17

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Box 3: Budgets for Impact Assessment
As many aspects of impact assessment should be part of the good practice
management of a project, it is not always meaningful to try and separate out costs.
However, in thinking through impact assessment in project design/implementation,
the following components should be considered and, as far as practical, costed.
These components and costs should be agreed with the partner-organisation, whose
capacity to undertake the required level of IA (e.g. their existing MIS, staff
understanding of IA) should be part of the appraisal process.
INITIAL INFORMATION COLLECTION
Baseline data:
What baseline data is required?
How will this will be collected? Who by?
Are there local skilled enumerators, or is local training needed, or are external
consultants required?
DESIGN OF IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Stakeholder analysis:
What meetings are required to undertake stakeholder analysis? At these,
consider:
Who should participate in IA and what methods of IA will be most effective in
getting relevant information? What will be the costs to stakeholders of
participation?
Are external facilitators required? Can internal staff be trained to do it?
What are the costs of these options? Which is likely to produce the better
information?
ONGOING INFORMATION COLLECTION
What steps are required to produce data that measures impact against
indicators?
Is there an existing MIS that will generate relevant data?
Does MIS require modification/elaboration?
Do staff know how to use MIS, or is training required?
Is there a need for periodic large scale quantitative/qualitative exercises? Are
there local personnel who can undertake these?
ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION
Who is responsible for processing information and generating meaningful reports
of progress against indicators?
DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS
What processes are required to disseminate finding?
Should there be series of workshops to involve stakeholders?
Should the report be translated into local language?
Who should the report be copied to?
Should the report be synthesised for publication in academic journals, at
conferences etc?
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